“A book is a mirror that offers us only what we already carry inside us.”

“Bea says that the art of reading is slowly dying, that it's an intimate ritual, that a book is a mirror that offers us only what we already carry inside us, that when we read, we do it with all our heart and mind, and great readers are becoming more scarce by the day.”

“Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.”

“Books are like mirrors , you only see in them what you already have inside you”

“None of us are what we once were.”

“We think we understand a song's lyrics but what makes us believe in them, or not, is the music”

“Normal people bring children into the world; we novelists bring books. We are condemned to put our whole lives into them, even though they hardly ever thank us for it. We are condemned to die in their pages and sometimes even to let our books be the ones who, in the end, will take our lives.”